Evernote coming to the web, Mac and more – this will be huge!
Fans of Evernote, meet fans of web applications. You’re all about to get along famously thanks to Evernote’s new web client, currently in private beta. For those not familiar with the Evernote desktop client, it’s essentially a eternal roll of digital notepaper that has long been a staple of Tablet PC users. Microsoft OneNote has more bells and whistles for sure, but Evernote is quite a capable tool as well. Even better is that Evernote is planned for the Mac, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Android devices!TechCrunch has all of the details on the new beta version, which looks incredible based on this video of Evernote on the Mac. You can create web clippings, the text of which (even pics) is recognized and indexed in the background. Using Spotlight on the Mac, for example, you can do a text search and Evernote will highlight the text regardless of it being in actual text, an image, whatever. It’s the same type of indexing effectively used in OneNote, for those familiar. I can see the pairing of an iPhone camera with a Mac Evernote client to work just like OneNote Mobile for Windows Mobile.From my viewing of the video, it appears that the web version will provide access to all of your notes, clippings and photos via a synchronization service between your Evernote client and an Evernote web account. This allows you to search all of your artifacts from any web-enabled device; the same background recognition and indexing is used, making this a boon to mobile device users. In the pic above for example, a photo of an airline ticket was saved in Evernote. On the Evernote site, a search was done for “amercian venetian ces”; the matching text was found near instantly due to the indexing behind the scenes. Watch for the new version, which TechCrunch indicates will be next month.(via Cybernet)
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Way cool. I’ve been using this on Windows for the last year.
Tip: Use the free Microsoft Foldershare and synch up your notes on one or more computers. This allows me to create a folder on all my computers called c:syncxxxx.
Then I use foldershare to synch home, office, laptop so every machine has the same c:synchxxxx folder structure.
My Evernote notes are perfectly in tune with each other no matter where I made them.
I also use Roboform this way — throw the data file into the c:syncxxxx folder structure and now your laptop will have the same passwords and shortcuts as your desk and as your home.
Someone passed this tip on to me about a year ago and it has worked great.
https://www.foldershare.com/
Wayne Schulz
This is indeed phenomenal and will shake up cloud note usefulness.
I use OneNote, but this may convince me to switch. I have an iPhone, and would like to use Firefox again (OneNote has better integration with IE). It looks like EverNote will work better with both.
I switched for the same reason but I use windows mobile on the phone side.
My phone and several PCs are using evernote and I just use the native sync in evernote when I switch PCs by connecting the phone.
This is a cool application. I don’t have a tablet PC; just an old Pocket PC, but the sharing aspect coupled with the ability to find things based on when you put them in (I have a chronological memory for some reason) is highly appealing.
I downloaded Evernote using the giveaway of the day and find it useful.
However I uploaded a few handwritten documents similar to the one above and the scanning hasn’t been particularly accurate and misereads words.
What I also note (and this is worrying) is that a search for the word “this” on the PC version returns 5 documents but using the web app to search the same document returns 0.